This book will be useful to researchers inter­ested in early modern European culture, and it is written in a style that is accessi­ble to undergraduate students, rendering it amenable for classroom use, as well.

The Historian

[A] wide-ranging and fascinating book that succeeds in providing new perspective on familiar events in European history. One of Kissane's key achievements is demonstrating the ways in which foods and food practices are constitutive and illustrative of religious and gender boundaries. This work is also highly readable and could easily be incorporated into undergraduate teaching.

American Historical Review

[Provides] a compelling and readable analysis of the myriad ways in which it is near impossible to understand any aspect of human existence, lived religious beliefs included, without reference to the most fundamental of human activities: eating.

English Historical Review

An engaging and informative book that introduces readers to the significant role of food in the social and cultural history of early modern Europe ... its greatest accomplishment is to show how food practices cast light on religion, community, and gender as they were woven into the ordinary daily activities of early modern Europeans. Its readable and engaging style will be of great value in the undergraduate classroom, while its sophistication and scope will appeal to advanced scholars.

EuropeNow Journal

The stories in this book, with their wealth of fascinating details, illuminate, with nuance, every aspect of the societies from which they come.

Heythrop Journal

This elegantly written, thoughtfully structured book examines food's fundamental role in early modern religious belief, identity, and community.

Cultural and Social History